How Technology Has Changed How We do Things -- Family and Consumer Science
Discuss on how technology is used in the world, home, school, work. This will be done by comparing on how technology has can changed over time. Examples:
Music has gone from records to tapes to CD to digital mp3 players and iPods.
Hand to stitch emboridery to fancy stitch sewing machines to computer controlled emboridery machines. (Show an machine emboridered hat or shirt.)
Scrapbooking - from old scrapbooks for photos to modern scrapbooks to electronic scrapbooking.
Printing from typesetting to all digital presses. Whole books can be printed on demand as needed from a PDF file.
Cooking -- we used to get recipes from out mother on cards to we can now collect our recipes and publish our own book to getting recipies on line.
Cars & Trucks - all vehicles used to be all mechcanical but now are all controlled by computers.
Shopping -- shopping used to be done with a clerk adding all the prices of items by hand or adding machine, then we have had UPC scanners that pull prices from the database and add them up automatically and tell how much change should be give and will spit it out to in the future all items could have RFID technology. [[exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/857/1/1/|http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/857/1/1/]]
EBay -- Shopping on line for all kind of things we could never find in a store.
Manuals and how to do something can all be found online.
Programmable TV's and applicances.
Where do we have computers now days? TVs, cell phones, cars, watches, etc.
Discuss on how technology is used in the world, home, school, work. This will be done by comparing on how technology has can changed over time. Examples:
- Music has gone from records to tapes to CD to digital mp3 players and iPods.
- Home cooling and heating from old thermostats to programmable thermostats to buildings like Noahs that totally automated. [[exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mynoahs.com/locations.php|http://mynoahs.com/locations.php]]
- Hand to stitch emboridery to fancy stitch sewing machines to computer controlled emboridery machines. (Show an machine emboridered hat or shirt.)
- Scrapbooking - from old scrapbooks for photos to modern scrapbooks to electronic scrapbooking.
- Printing from typesetting to all digital presses. Whole books can be printed on demand as needed from a PDF file.
- Cooking -- we used to get recipes from out mother on cards to we can now collect our recipes and publish our own book to getting recipies on line.
- Cars & Trucks - all vehicles used to be all mechcanical but now are all controlled by computers.
- Shopping -- shopping used to be done with a clerk adding all the prices of items by hand or adding machine, then we have had UPC scanners that pull prices from the database and add them up automatically and tell how much change should be give and will spit it out to in the future all items could have RFID technology. [[exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/857/1/1/|http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/857/1/1/]]
- EBay -- Shopping on line for all kind of things we could never find in a store.
- Manuals and how to do something can all be found online.
- Programmable TV's and applicances.
- Where do we have computers now days? TVs, cell phones, cars, watches, etc.
Brainstorm other technologies with your students.